Original investigations into corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse.

Working from a leaked federal contractor list of approximately 8,000 unaccompanied children's last-known addresses, an investigation door-knocked placement locations across the country, documenting confirmed trafficking cases, abandoned addresses, and systemic failures in the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement's tracking of children placed in its custody and released to sponsors.

A multi-country field investigation traced the mass migration corridor from Quito, Ecuador to the southern U.S. border, embedding with migrants through the Darién Gap jungle and aboard Mexico's freight trains. The reporting documented the role of international NGOs, transit infrastructure, and organized criminal networks shaping one of the largest human migration events in the hemisphere.

An undercover investigation into California's paid ballot petition industry documented petitioners exchanging cash and cigarettes for signatures on California ballot petitions, voters being misled about what they were signing, and a petition company operator previously named in foreign criminal complaints. The investigation exposed practices that violate state election law and undermine the integrity of the ballot initiative process.